FALL 2018 CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES

Creative Writing Instructor wins Excellence in Teaching Award

Creative Writing Instructor Henry Marchand is MPC's 2017-2018 recipient of the Allen Griffin Teaching Award, given by the Community Foundation of Monterey County to outstanding educators at the county's secondary and post-secondary institutions.

The award recognizes sustained excellence in classroom teaching and positive impact beyond the classroom in the recipient's school, profession, and community.

Congratulations to our Creative Writing Award winners!

Alex Harvin-Barbudo and Alivia Peters were recognized for their outstanding work in Creative Writing classes at the Humanities Division's annual Book Grant Award Winners ceremony in the Karas Room of the campus library on February 22 2018. Each received a certificate and a cash award intended to help pay for books their classes require.

Alex received the Dave Gitin Memorial Award; he was nominated by Creative Writing Instructor Brandi Kary.

Alivia received the Ray Fabrizio Memorial Award; she was nominated by Creative Writing Instructor Henry Marchand.

The awards are named in honor of former creative writing instructors at the college.

The program offers an immersion in writing that is both wide and deep, providing opportunities to study and practice poetry, short fiction, novel writing, writing for stage and screen, and creative nonfiction.

The writing workshop class format is used extensively, to create a supportive community of writers who assist each other in identifying where a written work is strongest, and where it could benefit by another look.

Meeting on Thursday afternoons from 3:00 - 4:00 in HU105, the Creative Writing Club complements creative writing course work by providing yet another venue for discussion and exploration of writing, including your own written work. While students enrolled in creative writing classes can be expected to have interest in the club, membership is open to all MPC students, so members benefit by the presence of a wider community of writers. Joshua Converse is the club's faculty advisor.

In addition to discussion of club members' fiction, poetry, memoir, etc., meetings feature writing exercises and conversation about writing challenges, processes and styles.

Edited and published with the invaluable assistance of The Creative Writing Club, Scheherazade, MPC's literary magazine, accepts submissions of poetry, short fiction, short memoir, novel excerpts, graphic art, and photography from MPC students.

Interested members of the club serve as editorial staff, reading and discussing submissions and helping to decide which will appear in the next issue. Students of the college do not have to be in the club or in any creative writing classes to submit their work; submissions are open only to currently enrolled MPC students.

The magazine is published in print and online; see the club and magazine web pages for additional information.

Scheherazade is made available at the campus library reference desk, in the Administration Building's reception area, at area libraries, at Bookbuyers in Monterey and the Friends of Marina Library Community Bookstore in Town Plaza on Reservation Road, and elsewhere. There is no charge for the magazine.

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